Testing for structural stability of factor augmented forecasting models

Testing Structural Stability in Macroeconometric Models

Forecasting in Dynamic Factor Models Subject to Structural Instability

Forecasting with dynamic factor models

The validity of previous findings that dynamic factor models are useful for macroeconomic forecasting is of great importance for subsequent studies which use these models not only as a starting point for further developments but also as a benchmark for the evaluation of the forecasting performance of these further developments. Reanalyzing a standard macroeconomic dataset, we do not find any ev...

Sufficient Forecasting Using Factor Models ∗

We consider forecasting a single time series when there is a large number of predictors and a possible nonlinear effect. The dimensionality was first reduced via a highdimensional factor model implemented by the principal component analysis. Using the extracted factors, we develop a link-free forecasting method, called the sufficient forecasting, which provides several sufficient predictive ind...

Bayesian forecasting with small and medium scale factor-augmented vector autoregressive DSGE models

Advanced Bayesian methods are employed in estimating dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models. Although policymakers and practitioners are particularly interested in DSGE models, these are typically too stylized to be taken directly to the data and often yield weak prediction results. Hybrid models can deal with some of the DSGE model misspeci…cations. Major advances in Bayesian est...